- Pay Rate:
£12.23 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months, likely to be extended
- Stratford, London,
E20 1JN
Temporary Customer Service Agent x10 – Transport Services
Job Ref: TL TCL290722
Optional Hybrid working (must have own computer) following 4-week training period in the office
Ten Customer Service Agents are required for first line and follow-up customer contacts by telephone, email, letter and in person. You will respond politely and efficiently to queries spanning payments, bookings, refunds, information, complaints and other enquiries. You will handle both internal and external customer concerns and resolve issues raised if possible as a one stop shop. Where appropriate you will capture, scan, log and record contact details and feedback enabling improvement in service across the company.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide accurate and relevant information promptly in a warm friendly and personable tone and treat each customer as an individual with the objective of exceeding each customer’s expectations.
- Deal with public comments effectively and give only disclosable information.
- Answer all queries as quickly as possible ensuring that the reply is accurate, the tone is friendly, and that the customer’s query is fully answered.
- Process refunds accurately and in a timely manner.
- Recognise and use opportunities to promote other services.
- Adhere to all company and local Group Marketing policies and guidelines.
- Log and code/categorise each customer contact item.
- Update frequently asked questions and information on both internal facing knowledge bases and external customer facing knowledge bases.
- Support the co-ordination of charity collections and busking bookings.
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal with people in a polite, helpful and constructive way. Ability to write clear, concise and customer focussed letters and emails.
- Excellent organisational to cope with a heavy workload and an ability to manage own time to meet challenging deadlines.
- Customer focussed with ability to take ownership of issues and follow through to a conclusion, to be able to decide what course of action to take with a customer enquiry/complaint/refund.
- Proven ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues.
- Basic computer and Internet literacy.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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